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A Complete E2E Metered Billing for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Cloud Assert Billing for Azure Stack Hub enables billing and chargeback within Azure Stack portal. It allows you as an administrator to track the resource consumption across Azure Stack and custom services, compare usage vs quota, configure pricing for Azure Stack resources based on usage meters, integrate with external billing systems, and generate invoices automatically based on real-time usages.

Cloud Assert is the only provider of Billing and Commerce platform for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub that has native integration inside Azure Stack Portal UI and Azure Resource Manager API as a Resource Provider. It allows Enterprises, Service Providers, Re-sellers and End Users to view, track and manage their resource consumption and billing from the same single portal with one-pane glass experience.


Cloud Assert Usage and Billing platform is a matured, battle proven solution with many flexible options to customize and suite diverse marketing and sales needs. It provides you the quickest way to offer rich billing solution on top of the Microsoft Azure Stack Hub portal for all your Charge-back, Show-back, Billing and Reporting needs.

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Administrator Portal

Usage and Billing solution enables you as a service administrator to define multiple pricing models within Azure Stack Hub for all the available services, resource meters, plans and offers.

  • Set different Pricing Profiles for all the Azure Stack Hub Meters
  • Visibility across Resource Usages and its Costs per subscription
  • Run Promotional Credits in a percentage or a monetary value
  • Extensibility and Flexibility to charge customers based on their specifc needs
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Customer/ Tenant Portal

Just like Azure public cloud, Tenants can get to see their ongoing usages, pricing and billing information including invoices right within their Azure Stack customer portal at a quick glance.

  • Ability to see their ongoing usages and its associated costs
  • Automatic invoice generation at the end of the billing cycle
  • Pay your bills within the Azure Stack Hub portal
  • Native billing experience just like Azure
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Essential Features of the Billing Solution

Custom Pricing Profiles

  • Ability to configure different pricing for the usage meters emitted by the Azure Stack services
  • Bill-back customers in the following models: Fixed Fee, Pay-as-you-go and Combinations of both models with compatible rates

Offer Promotional Credits

  • Run various types of promotional credits to your customers like One-time, Recurring, Individual User Credits, etc., for increasing their life time value and stickiness
  • Credits can be given in a percentage or a monetary value to customers

Usage Histories & Invoices

  • Ability for the admin and tenant to see the historic and current month usage details and its associated costs
  • Cost comparison with previous months and provide cost trend analysis report along with the Invoices

Custom Collector

  • It is a wonderful mechanism that augments collecting more usage data that are not available in the usage collection mechanism of Azure Stack Hub provided by Microsoft
  • On top of this you can bill your customers based on their specific billing needs

Quota vs Usage Consumption

  • A quick comparison view of the allocated Azure Stack Quota vs Usage Consumption for all the registered Tenant users
  • Powerful trend chart view across the consumed Azure Stack resources and the monthly summary report can be downloaded as a CSV file

CSP Reseller Billing

  • Profit visibility for selling license, usage and service based subscriptions
  • System generated invoices supports multi-currency and multi-languages
  • Invoice can be segregated based on licenses, usages, etc.,

Azure Stack Hub Billing Resources

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Customer case studies on leveraging Cloud Assert Usage and Billing Resource Provider in their Azure Stack Hub journey

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Azure Marketplace

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In this video, Mr. Jayanth, the Senior Principal Engineer Product Technologist for Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, working for Dell Technologies talks about Cloud Assert Billing solution and Dell's association with Cloud Assert.



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Determine the optimal Azure Stack Hub instance (aka stamp) to deploy a set of VMs with VConnect

Manage and take actions across multiple stamp instances from a single Azure Stack Hub portal with one-pane glass experience

Author: Arun Krishnan/Wednesday, September 23, 2020/Categories: Microsoft Azure Stack

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VConnect Multi-stamp Management for Azure Stack Hub enables the administrators/ operators to manage and take actions across multiple stamp instances from a single Azure Stack Hub portal with one-pane glass experience.

Ideally, every Azure Stack Hub operator would want to determine the superlative AzStack Hub instance to deploy a set of virtual machines. In order to facilitate this process, Cloud Assert released a new feature 'VM Placement Recommendation' as part of VConnect Multi-stamp Management (MSM) solution for Azure Stack Hub. This feature enables the operators to choose the optimal stamp instance across multiple stamps based on the available capacity.


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The following details with the portal snapshots lets you quickly understand how the solution works,


When you choose a resource (aka Virtual Machine) from different series and size, you will get to see its subsequent details like vCPU, Memory, Storage, etc., holistically as shown in the below image.

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While placing the chosen virtual machines, you can select the 'Show Recommendation' button where the system recommends the option to optimally place VMs of various sizes across stamp instances based on the available capacity.

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You will get a holistic view of the summary of the added virtual machines with its aggregated resources such as CPU, Memory, Storage, etc., as shown in the below image

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Also, you will get to see the infrastructure capacity prior to post VM placement along with the estimate count of VMs of given size that can be fit into a particular Azure Stack Hub stamp.

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1 comments on article "Determine the optimal Azure Stack Hub instance (aka stamp) to deploy a set of VMs with VConnect"

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Maya Ali

5/20/2021 10:23 AM

Azure Stack Hub Multi-Stamp management enables you to manage and take actions across multiple stamp instances from a single Azure Stack Hub portal with one-pane of glass experience.

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